Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Feeling Great...Eat to Live Update

Seriously, I am so pleased with my new Eat to Live diet (I hate that word...diet). I have been doing this for not even two weeks, and I have already lost 15 pounds and I eat a LOT. Unbelievable. Now I have a lot of weight to ultimately lose, so I'm sure it will come off faster at first, but the success has been even more of a motivator, not to mention that I am just feeling so much better!!

I think for a non-vegan or non-vegetarian, this would be a hard way of eating to start...very extreme. Luckily I have been a vegetarian for more than 15 years and have been a complete vegan for a year and a half so the transition has been very easy.

I haven't started making any special recipes, etc....still looking forward to that. Right now I am doing the strict 6-week aggressive program....programming my mind and body to get past the food addiction. If you had told me three weeks ago that I would not be able to eat some of my planned foods since I was full I would have laughed out loud. And if you had told me that I could not have any between meal snacks, I would have said HA! I would have said..." I can't go that long between eating." When in actuality, I am NOT hungry between meals.

Breakfast and Lunch today (ignore the ugly paper plates and plastic - I was at work)....

(Is there a secret to peeling a pretty orange....my oranges are always so messy looking.....but at least they taste super yummy!!)

I am SO proud of you, Sweet Lolly! You are going to end up feeling so amazing you won't begin to BELIEVE it! You already look amazing to me, and I KNOW you ARE! That meal made me soooooo hungry! I too, am a veggy person. Poor ripe tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden barely make it inside before I am chomping away! In fact, I have YET to cook a single pea or bean. They are just delicious fresh-picked & raw. Now I'm waiting on squash to ripen. You are a role model & I'm bowing to you! (And I am smiling over the kitty photo!) LOVE YOU!